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caricature
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car·i·ca·ture
/ ˈkarikəchər; -ˌchoŏr/
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n.
a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
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the art or style of such exaggerated representation:
there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero.
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a ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something:
he looked like a caricature of his normal self.
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v. [tr.] (usu. be caricatured)
make or give a comically or grotesquely exaggerated representation of (someone or something).
DERIVATIVES:
car·i·ca·tur·al
/ ˌkarikəˈchoŏrəl/ adj.
car·i·ca·tur·ist
/ -ˌchoŏrist/ n.
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Caricature politique sous son vrai jour!
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...etre l'objet d'une caricature politique. Entre les...artiste talentueux, la caricature peut se reveler une...oublie souvent que les caricatures constituent une forme...journaux, pour que des caricatures fassent leur apparition...est en 1884 que la caricature politique y a fait...
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Caricature art in Kurdistan.
Newspaper article from: The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq); 6/17/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: Ferhad Pirbal Caricature art, while experiencing its birth...scene in the mid-20th century. Caricature art is comedic. ItYs a simple art...KurdistanYs folk language has many caricature expressions, including -It has...
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Creative caricature.(Middle School)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...variety in kinds of caricatures. I post several...quickly draw their caricature. During the demonstration...complete their caricature before the others...may begin self-caricatures using one of the...over the completed caricatures displayed in a...assessment: 5 points: Caricature has ...
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Superportraits: Caricatures and Recognition in the Series of Essays in Cognitive Psychology. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: British Journal of Psychology; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...brought the phenomenon of caricature to life. The book...undistorted images? Do caricatures exploit some special...conclusion is that the caricature is at least as good...expert perceivers, the caricature attains the status...we begin to see why caricatures have this power. The...
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When caricature becomes the message POLITICS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...to be the defining caricature in a campaign of exaggerated postures and caricatures? It may be. At times...where reality ends and caricature begins. In a sketch...role in politics. Caricature characterizes and criticizes...for example, whose caricatures have been a staple...
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The man who hated caricature: cartoon historian Mark Bryant examines the origins of caricature itself, and the ambivalent attitude to it of the man whose name has become synonymous with the emergence of the art in Britain.(BEHIND THE LINES)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Hogarth was the father of caricature and cartoons. His...be the first modern caricatures and the prototypes...description of his work as 'caricature'. So incensed was...in particular of the caricatures of cardinals and others...collection of twenty-five caricature prints was published...
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Des journaux étudiants prennent part à la controverse des caricatures
Magazine article from: University Affairs; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; La publication des caricatures controverses du prophte...ils ont rserv aux caricatures. Les diteurs de The...possibilit de reproduire les caricatures danoises pour finalement...publication d'une caricature politique dessine par...
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A caricature should make us laugh -- and what's wrong with that?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/19/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...people. The same can be said of caricatures. Caricature is satirical, and satire is...caricaturist's function. The word caricature derives from the Italian...Johnson's first dictionary: "Caricature -- to hold to ridicule; a...
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Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...eighteenth-century caricatures. Since then, caricature prints have increasingly...England. Today, caricatures embellish the covers...eighteenth-century caricature. Despite the difficulties...is through these caricatures that we are introduced...
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Picasso's use of caricature and distortion shown in rarely seen exhibit
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...drawings. Yet Picasso didn't use caricature solely, or even mainly, for social ends. The caricatures here are an artist's caricatures...Hoffmann in Picasso's Free Hand and Caricature, the book on which the exhibit...
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caricature
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...the term ‘caricature’ (which...overcharge: as such, caricatures pack meaning and detail...body shapes. Works of caricature can therefore be defined...stereotypes, many caricatures reveal more subtle...Indeed, the history of caricature has often been entwined...
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Caricature and Cartoon
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...social and political caricature, which acquired a...the earliest name for caricatures, ritratti caricati...and, via the French caricature, gives us the English...instruction in how to draw caricatures. It was, however...political and social caricature. In the 1750s George...
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Grandville, J.J.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Champfleury. Became “King of Caricature” Around 1830, Grandville...publisher Charles Philipon and draw caricatures of the increasingly unpopular French...Philipon's new publication, La Caricature. In 1832, the journal declared...
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Hirschfeld, Al
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the individual, rather than making a caricature for caricature's sake," artist Al Hirschfeld (1903...the man widely regarded as the greatest caricature artist of modern times. Most caricatures poke fun at their subjects, exaggerating...
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beauty spots
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...expositions on portraiture and caricature. At the time, essayist...portraits to the verge of caricature, but never went beyond it...Hogarth's faces portraits or caricatures? As David Piper's The...time, Hogarth's use of caricature lends itself to the exaggerated...
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